🎧 Rooney meets Owen - who was better at 18?
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Wayne Rooney welcomes his former England and Manchester United team-mate Michael Owen on the latest edition of The Wayne Rooney Show.
Like Rooney at Everton, Owen burst on to the scene as a teenager at Liverpool, so the pair discuss who was the better player at 18, and also whether Michael Carrick should get the United job permanently.
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Rooney and Owen were at the centre of an intense "who was better?" debate last year.
The conversation began in September when Owen backed himself, saying injuries had hindered his own career, before adding: "He'll go down as a better player than me. But, at 17, please... "
However, the 2001 Ballon d'Or winner was more diplomatic on Rooney's podcast when they considered who was the better footballer at 18.
Owen recalled the period when Rooney emerged as a teenage England star at Euro 2004 - six years after Owen had made a similar splash at the 1998 World Cup.
"It felt like it took me ages to become England's number one striker and it felt like I was only there for two weeks before he came along and I had to become the sideshow," said Owen, who played 89 times for England compared to Rooney's 120 appearances.
Rooney said: "I used to pretend to be Michael in the World Cup in 1998, and then I was in the squad and playing up front with him.
"I was in the garden two years before hitting the ball against my nan's wall pretending to be Michael and all of a sudden I'm playing alongside him."
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